PHOTOS

The changing leaves in Oslo bring to mind memories of the North Carolina mountains. Several running clubs take to Vigelandsparken in the early evening.   Father and daughter enjoy Vigelandsparken. Jim relaxing on a Vigelandsparken sculpture   Vigelandsparken Vigelandsparken   Vigelandsparken Me in front of the beautiful Vigelandsparken fountain   Vigelandsparken Vigelandsparken   One of the many views in Vigelandsparken Vigelandsparken's Sinnataggen (The Real Angry One) shows the rage of a boy who is stamping his foot for added exaggeration.   Vigelandsparken Mooring at Aker Brygge harbor   Oslo's harbor offers fabulous views   PAIGE'S OBSERVATIONS   30 September 1999 - Visited Vigelandsparken (Frogner Park), more than 80 acres filled with scores of granite and bronze sculptures by wood carver Gustav Vigeland. In 1921 the townspeople recognized Vigeland’s talent and offered him a free house and studio in return for his life’s work. Unveiled after the Second World War, his public art – scores of nude sculptures, and one 470-ton monolith, showing newborns, middle-age couples, skinny, wrinkled men and pot-bellied women in love and rage – horrified many. For me, the splendor in the art remains the honest depiction of life in bare sculpted stone, not erotic or sexual.